AP IMPACT: Afghanistan no country for old translators; others don’t even speak the languageNAWA, Afghanistan — Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan’s 115-degree heat had exhausted him. This was not what he signed up for. Under grueling Afghan sun, US Marines march through July 4 _ dreaming of cool beer and lakesNAWA, Afghanistan — Taliban militants were nowhere in sight as the columns of U.S. Marines walked a third straight day across southern Afghanistan. But the desert heat proved an enemy in its own right, with several troops falling victim Saturday to temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit. US Marines meet little resistance as they push into south Afghanistan, try to win over localsNAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over local elders on the second day of the biggest U.S. military operation here since the American-led invasion of 2001. US Marines push deeper into volatile southern Afghanistan but meeting little resistanceNAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. forces have encountered little resistance in the initial phase of a massive operation by some 4,000 Marines in Taliban-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, but that’s a common tactic by insurgents. Marines battle Taliban in massive Afghan offensive; suffer first casualtiesNAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001. Marines battle Taliban and heat in Afghan offensive; US soldier believed captured elsewhereNAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. Thousands of US Marines pour into Afghan south to oust anti-Taliban; soldier missing elsewhereNAWA, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize the country. |
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